News How to Watch and Livestream the 2021 MTV VMAs Kacey Musgraves, Doja Cat, Normani, Lil Nas X, and many more are set to perform during the broadcast By Matthew Strauss September 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Lil Nas X, August 2019 (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for MTV) Facebook Twitter The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards will
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Lana Del Rey says she is signing off social media. In a video posted to Instagram on Saturday night, Del Rey announced that all of her accounts will be deactivated effective Sunday. “That is simply because I have so many interests, and other jobs I’m doing that require privacy and transparency,” she explained of the
News Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme Faces Restraining Orders Requests Filed on Behalf of His Children Court filings via Homme’s ex-wife Brody Dalle allege abusive behavior By Evan Minsker and Matthew Strauss September 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter Josh Homme, January 2019 (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Queens of Stone Age’s Josh Homme is
The gravesite of Pop Smoke was vandalized over the weekend, and there’s evidence to suggest the vandals attempted to remove the late rapper’s casket. TMZ reports that the crypt at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York was smashed open sometime between Friday evening and Saturday morning. Drag marks were also seen on the ground outside
News Watch Metallica Perform, Read One-Star Black Album Reviews on Kimmel They played “Holier Than Thou” and “Wherever I May Roam,” as well as sitting down for a chat with the host By Allison Hussey and Jazz Monroe September 11, 2021 Facebook Twitter Metallica on Kimmel Facebook Twitter Metallica performed “Holier Than Thou” and “Wherever
Stone Temple Pilots and Bush have scrapped their upcoming co-headlining US tour, with Bush citing “unfortunate and unavoidable COVID-related circumstances” as the reason for the cancellation. However, STP are still moving forward with their own headlining shows later in the fall. The two bands recently announced the joint trek, which was set to kick off
News Michael Chapman, English Folk Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 80 The Leeds-born artist released over 40 albums across his 50-year-career By Evan Minsker September 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter Michael Chapman, 1973 (Dick Barnatt/Redferns/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter English folk singer-songwriter Michael Chapman has died at the age of 80, Brendan Greaves, the co-founder of Chapman’s label Paradise
Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty, who was convicted of first-degree attempted rape in 1995, has pleaded guilty for failing to register as a sex offender. Via NBC News and Pitchfork, he had initially pleaded not guilty, but in August reached a deal with prosecutors, and formally entered a guilty plea yesterday, September 9th. His sentencing hearing
It is all but impossible to dislike Ed Roman’s new single “Happiness”. The popping creativity audible throughout this song has a contagious positive feel, an infectious optimism that, nevertheless, isn’t Pollyanna fluff. Ed Roman’s target audience, consciously or otherwise, are music devotees rather than casual listeners and his past songwriting reflects this. Cuts such as
Pamela Hopkins’ “Back When” isn’t the musical equivalent of a Hallmark greeting card or family album. It is one of those songs about the enchantment of the past, childhood specifically, and we’ve heard its ilk before. Hopkins, however, brings her innate Southern talent for soulfulness to bear from the first line through the last. She
News SZA Shares “The Anonymous Ones” for New Dear Evan Hansen Movie: Listen Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Amandla Stenberg wrote the song for the new film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical By Matthew Strauss September 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter SZA, May 2021 (Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter SZA has released
It takes a lot of talent to put a quarter-century-old song back on the charts, whether you’re one of the most established alt-rock bands working today or just an especially precocious 11-year-old. This week, Foo Fighters’ 1997 classic “Everlong” has cracked Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, Hot Alternative Songs, and Hot Hard Rock Songs
News Kendrick Lamar Joins Baby Keem on New Song “Range Brothers”: Listen Lamar also contributes to Keem’s Melodic Blue tracks “Vent” and “Family Ties” By Allison Hussey September 10, 2021 Facebook Twitter Kendrick Lamar, January 2018 (Theo Wargo/WireImage) Facebook Twitter Kendrick Lamar has once again joined Baby Keem on some new material, rapping on the
Metallica have released The Metallica Blacklist charity covers compilation. The album features 53 artists covering the 12 songs from “The Black Album.” All proceeds from the release benefit a charity of each artist’s choice and Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation. The band announced the compilation at the same time as the “Black Album” Super
Album rollouts can be a tedious art form, entirely reflecting the structure and message of an impending album within a PR landscape while giving spotlight and focus to a select few singles that will undoubtedly do the heavy lifting for most casual listeners in a musical artist’s audience. The distinction of an album single doesn’t
With Prix6 and Charles King in the booth for good measure, Monsieur Job redefines the parameters of a slick Latin hip-hop groove in the song “Ese Tumbao – Remix,” but much as it is in the more rock-inspired “Malevo Maleva,” the vocal harmonies are a bit more transcendent than the percussive frills are. “Da Funk”
News Lucy Dacus Shares Fan-Filled New Video for “Brando”: Watch Fans’ home-shot footage comprises the Home Video visual By Allison Hussey September 9, 2021 Facebook Twitter Lucy Dacus, July 2021 (Douglas Mason/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Back in June, when Lucy Dacus shared her Home Video single “Brando,” she also launched a contest, asking fans to
Picking only ten Kacey Musgraves songs out of her bejeweled body of work is sort of like driving through a Texas rainstorm in an older truck that’s also low on gas, which is to say it’s profoundly difficult — but sometimes, there’s a rainbow waiting at the end. Musgraves breathed new life into the tired
News Lorde Releases EP With Māori Renditions of Solar Power Songs: Listen Te Ao Mārama benefits two New Zealand-based charities By Evan Minsker September 9, 2021 Facebook Twitter Lorde (Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Lorde has released an EP called Te Ao Mārama, which collects five new recordings of songs from her new
Michael Constantine, who played Gus Portokalos, the father of Nia Vardalos’ character Toula in the 2002 blockbuster My Big Fat Greek Wedding and its 2016 sequel, has died at the age of 94. A representative for Constantine told Variety that Constantine died of natural causes. In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Constantine portrayed a proud